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US6872144B2
US6872144B2 US10/682,688 US68268803A US6872144B2 US 6872144 B2 US6872144 B2 US 6872144B2 US 68268803 A US68268803 A US 68268803A US 6872144 B2 US6872144 B2 US 6872144B2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G27/00—Russian swings; Great wheels, e.g. Ferris wheels
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G9/00—Swings
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G2200/00—Means for transporting or storing public amusement arrangements

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  • the invention relates to an amusement device, including a frame made from four support legs which, running obliquely upwards toward one another, at their top end support a rotary member, an arm, one end of which is secured to the rotary member and which can be pivoted between the support legs, and a receiving device for people, which is suspended from the other end of the arm.
  • An amusement device of this type is known. Its four support legs are jointed. In the assembled state, these support legs each rest directly on the ground in order to provide the device with the required stability. A reasonable degree of stability is highly important in view of the relatively high imbalance which is generated when the amusement device is operating as a result of the swinging arm with a fully occupied receiving device attached to it.
  • the support legs and various other components of the known amusement device can be transported on a trailer in the transportation position. Before the amusement device can be used, it has to be assembled, during which operation, as described above, the support legs have to be supported separately, remote from the trailer.
  • a construction method of this type is relatively laborious. In particular the operation of erecting the support legs is laborious. It must be borne in mind that to do this, a good erection spot outside the trailer has to be selected, since otherwise it is impossible to guarantee the stability of the amusement device.
  • the support legs remain permanently attached to the trailer. This makes it possible for the support legs to be set up within a relatively short time and also to be folded down again within a relatively short time.
  • the trailer which itself must of course be set up on a stable area of ground, is responsible for providing excellent support to the support legs which have been erected.
  • the width of the trailer in view of the requirements of road traffic, has to remain within certain limits, the distance between two legs located at an end of the trailer is limited. Therefore, it is not readily possible for the arm with the receiving device to be moved between these pairs of legs. For this reason, the center axis of the rotary member from which the arm with receiving device is suspended is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the trailer, in such a manner that the movement now takes place between the pairs of support legs and transversely with respect to the trailer.
  • stabilizing arms to be located at both longitudinal ends of the trailer, which arms can be displaced between an active position, which is transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction of the trailer, and a folded-down position running along the trailer.
  • a trestle is located at both longitudinal ends of the trailer, in such a manner that in each case two support legs are secured in hinged fashion to each trestle.
  • the stabilizing arms can each be connected to the trailer and a trestle in such a manner that they can rotate about a vertical axis of rotation.
  • these stabilizing arms can easily be unfolded. However, they remain attached to the trailer, which further increases the speed and simplicity of erecting and dismantling the amusement device.
  • the floor of the trailer may have a downwardly recessed floor section at the location of the path of the receiving device.
  • a platform to be secured to the recessed floor section. This platform can be moved up and down to allow the occupants to take their seats. In the downwardly moving position, the arm with receiving device has a clear path.
  • the arm at its end remote from the rotary member, has a rotary ring, from which at least two auxiliary arms slope obliquely away from one another, and each of the auxiliary arms bears at least one seat for a person.
  • the arm can preferably be kept relatively short. An advantage of this is that the relatively heavy rotary ring with drive does not have an excessively great moment arm with respect to the rotary member. Consequently, the capacity of the drive can be kept to a limited level.
  • the support legs are connected to one another in pairs at their top end, in such a manner that support legs of one pair are pivotably secured at one end of the trailer and the support legs of the other pair are pivotably secured at the other end of the trailer.
  • the dimension of the support legs transversely to the hinge axis is smaller than the distance between these hinge axes at the two ends of the trailer, so that the support legs can be folded down flat onto the trailer.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view of the amusement device
  • FIG. 2 shows a front view of the amusement device, with the arm swung up
  • FIG. 3 shows a plan view of the amusement device
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show a detail relating to the platform
  • FIGS. 6-11 show the various phases involved in constructing the amusement device.
  • the amusement device according to the invention illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises a frame 1 which has a first pair of support arms 2 , a second pair of support arms 3 , a trailer 4 and two trestles 5 at the longitudinal ends of the trailer 4 .
  • the pairs of support arms 2 , 3 are each secured to the trestles 5 by means of hinges 6 , the hinge axis of which is oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the trailer 4 .
  • the pairs of support legs 2 , 3 support a rotary member 7 , the axis of which is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the trailer 4 .
  • An arm 8 which bears a receiving device 9 by means of the rotary ring 10 , is secured to the rotary member 7 .
  • the receiving device 9 has four arms 11 , two of which, each bearing a row of seats 12 , can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • Stabilizing arms 14 which can be displaced between the folded-down position along the trailer 4 shown in FIG. 1 and the folded-out position shown in FIG. 2 , are secured to the longitudinal ends of the trailer 4 and the trestles 5 .
  • the arm 8 with the receiving device 9 can be pivoted between on the one hand the pair of legs 2 and on the other hand the pair of legs 3 .
  • the stabilizing arms 14 ensure the required stability of the trailer 4 .
  • Electro-hydraulic drives for generating the desired rotary movements are provided at the location of the rotary member 7 of the rotary ring 10 .
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show the platform 13 in two different positions.
  • the state shown in FIG. 4 illustrates the platform 13 in the position in which the occupants can gain access to the seats 12 .
  • the jacks 15 , 16 have been moved into their extended position.
  • FIG. 5 shows the state of the platform 13 in its lowered position.
  • the jacks 15 and 16 have in this case been retracted.
  • the arm 8 with the receiving device 9 and the seats 12 can move freely over the platform without coming into contact with it and in particular with its gates and fences 17 .
  • FIGS. 6-11 A description of how the amusement device according to the invention can be erected will now be given with reference to FIGS. 6-11 .
  • the support legs 2 , 3 have been moved downward about their respective hinge pins 6 on the trestles 5 .
  • the pair of support legs 2 is connected to a jack 18
  • the pair of support legs 3 is connected to a jack 19 .
  • the pair of support legs 3 is secured to the rotary member 7 by means of a hinge 20 .
  • the arm 8 , the rotary ring 10 and the auxiliary arms 9 are located on this rotary member 7 .
  • FIG. 7 when the device is being erected, first of all the pair of support legs 2 is pivoted upward by means of the jack 18 .
  • FIG. 8 shows that then the pair of support legs is pivoted upward by means of the jack 19 , with the arm 8 , the rotary ring 10 and the auxiliary arms 9 also being moved upward with them.
  • the rotary member 7 After the pair of support arms 3 have been moved into the correct position as shown in FIG. 9 , and the arm 8 with the rotary member 7 has been pivoted, it is possible, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 , for the rotary member 7 to be attached to the pair of support legs 2 , for example by means of a bolted connection.
  • the seat devices 12 can be attached to the auxiliary arms 19 and the platform (not shown) can be put in place.
  • the stabilizing arms 14 (not shown in FIGS. 6-11 ) then to be folded out into the state shown in FIG. 2 .

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